While brick-and-mortar retailers have a sad showing for video games this year’s Black Friday, the online world is just revving up. So far, Steam, NewEgg, and Amazon have deals already going on. To aid you in the quest to filter the junk from the good stuff, games listed below have a 75% or above Metacritic rating and less than $20 per game. No opinions are ever made on the games listed.

Amazon has deals going on throughout the day on video games (plus tons of other stuff). Amazon’s Black Friday Video Game Deals

PC Games

Plants vs. Zombies (PC, 2009) – 89%, Rank #83
$4.99
Genre: Action, Strategy
ESRB: RP (Rating Pending)

Men of War (PC, 2009) – 79%, Rank #550
$4.99
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
ESRB: M (Mature)

Wii Games

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Wii, 2008) – 77%, Rank #690
$14.98
Genre: Adventure
ESRB: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older)

LEGO Star Wars Saga (Wii)
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Wii, 2006) – 86%, Rank #172
LEGO Star Wars (Wii, 2005) – 69%, Rank #1181 (modified/improved in “Saga”)
$14.99
Genre: Third-Person Action, Adventure, Action, Adventure
ESRB: E (Everyone), E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older)

Playstation Network (PS3/PSP)

Flower (2009) – 87%
$4.99
Genre: Action
ESRB: E (Everyone)

The Last Guy (2008) – 77%
$4.99
Genre: Action, Adventure
ESRB: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older)

Comet Crash (2009) – 85%
$4.99
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
ESRB: E (Everyone)

Bomberman Ultra (2009) – 81%
$4.99
Genre: Action
ESRB: E (Everyone)

Percentages and ranks come from Metacritic.com game scores. It isn’t a perfect system, but it is better than nothing.

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